As GPUs remain hard to find, expensive to buy and sad to think about, we have another round of Steam hardware reports to see what people are actually using and for the RTX range of cards adoption is still slow going.
In the top 10 GPUs used by Steam accounts the highest placing is the RTX 2060 in fourth place with a 5.38 percent market share and then there’s the RTX 3060 laptop variant in eighth place at 2.35 percent.
This is less a testament to the quality of the 20 and 30 series cards and more a harsh fact that supply has not met demand and in markets where you can freely buy these GPUs at retail – such as South Africa – distributors and sellers are charging such high prices that you don’t need to be scalped by a third party to feel cheated.
As we discussed recently with Valve’s recap of 2021, the PC market seems to be irreparably damaged by the pandemic, component shortages and companies figuring out that they can simply charge whatever they want and the consumer has no choice but to pay up or go without.
This latest report just confirms what all of us in the hobby all already know and have been struggling with for years now.
Putting Nvidia aside and AMD makes its first appearance in lowly 14th place and not even with a discreet GPU. This 14th place is taken up by the integrated graphics AMD CPUs with the first discreet GPU in 17th place with the venerable RX 580 still sticking in there with a 1.43 percent market share.
As much as AMD has shaken up the CPU industry there’s really no doubt when it comes to who owns the GPU market. Hopefully with Intel heading into the world of GPUs soon we’ll see a shakeup in the industry of Nvidia domination.
Below is the list of the top 22 GPUs used on Steam with the latest reporting from Valve. 22 may seem like a strange number, but we included it to this to show another AMD GPU in 22nd place with the RX 570, and Intel integrated graphics in 21st place.
The rest of the Steam hardware and software survey results can be found here with the GPU section with more details here.
[h/t – PCGamer]
